Sleep in Renaissance Poland : Bartolomeo Berrecci's Tomb Sculpture and Its Legacy in East Central Europe /
Focusing on the Italian architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Berrecci, this monograph examines an important subset of his sepulchral works-recumbent statuary-and offers insights into their patronage, reception, and interpretation. Berrecci's exploration of this sculptural type predates its eventua...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ;
82.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
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Call Number: D57
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 5 Bartolomeo Berrecci's Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance
- 1 How Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik Mikołaj Szydłowiecki
- 2 Inventing King Sigismund's Sepulchral Statue
- 3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki's Effigy and Italian Art
- 4 Barbara Tarnowska née Tęczyńska: Tomicki's Female Counterpart
- 6 The Expectations of Berrecci's Patrons
- 1 Why Krzysztof Szydłowiecki Commissioned the Tomb of His Son
- 2 King Sigismund and His Sepulchral Monument
- 3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki Orders His Tomb
- 4 Hetman Tarnowski Commemorates His Wife Barbara
- 7 Independent Child Monuments after Ludwik Mikołaj Szydłowiecki
- 1 Zygmunt Szydłowiecki's Bronze Relief
- 2 Szydłowiecki's Associates and Child Tombs
- 3 Later Child Monuments
- 8 The Reception of Berrecci's Reclining Adults
- 1 Knights in Armor
- 2 Figures in Civilian Clothes
- Epilogue: the Place of Berrecci's Dreaming Figures in European and Old Polish Culture
- Appendices
- Catalog
- Works Cited
- Index.